I've been waiting months for this day. Three months to be exact. You see, today is the first day of spring.

And even though it snowed again last night, I'm not going to shovel. I've shoveled for three months. And today I am being lazy.

And that's exactly what Dell is counting on with their press release on new PowerEdge R300 and T300 servers this week. In the release, Dell makes several SPEC benchmark performance claims. The footnotes for these claims tell you to go to the SPEC website to see any data. Which means you need to actually figure out which systems, configurations, and which data they are referring to and do your own compare. How many of us actually have the time and the inclination to do this ? And that is exactly what Dell is betting on.

If you do the homework, you see that in many cases Dell compares their new results with other vendor's results from over a year ago with older technology. So in this case, it pays not to be lazy.

In my case, I'm excusing my laziness. Because eventually it will melt.

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